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    something about food having      feeling.

     

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    and so she does.   It's a glorious celebration of ingredients, cooking and love.    I recently became aware of a fully stocked Indian grocery in Yuba,   a town a half hour away…..the raw spices!

    i am SO ready for this!!!

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     i have several very beautiful Indian cookbooks.    This     is    Extraordinary.    NPR  All Things Considered  interview,  April 5.  I now have it.  here.   

    typepad is ify again tonight,  so i'll wait for words till tomorrow.

     

     

     

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    tried 4 times for words,  it's not happening,   so,  i give.   

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    there are things wrong with this…so it can become a good place to start.   Anything can happen.

     

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    the first time this circle of seasons  out on the table in the SUN.   She went through the old cowboy's drawers and brought out all she needed…paper,  her watercolors,  mark making tools and got to it.  Over the course of the day she made 4 paintings.   This is my only one,   2 graphite and the Inktense pencils.   She does do illustrative work but her love is abstract and so it was yesterday.   Sitting next to her was an inspiration.  i loosened up    some   to get this far.     more is needed.    We talked  a lot and ate and played  with Minnow and …..did art.  Watched 5 butterflies,   the first of the season, and a tiny caterpillar.  Checked in on live streams of the country's Hands Off.  and at this table,  in this place,  for the first time in a long while,  all was well.

    go to CatherinE's blog     gemtactics.com     her post  of  Hands Off in Maine

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Sacramento,  California

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    Inktense pencils.   made this not long after i got them…date at bottom,  2015.  Maybe its time.  

    nuance of  sunflower

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    having no direction.

    Am going to let it go      until this rain season passes.   until available light is available.   till there are seeds to plant.   These things are         sure.       I can ground my heart in them,  ask them to keep me in a land of hope.   Then find a way to create what hope might look like.  

    I need drawing or cloth.   or both      But i've come to accept that i need  something with my hands.   can be simple, like  this tadpole.